In his feature-length debut, writer-director John Patton Ford helms this thriller about Emily (Aubrey Plaza), a young woman swimming in debt who's drawn into crime. (93 min.) Glen Emily works as an independent contractor for a catering company, loading up tin trays of food and driving them to offices, where she sets up lunch for impatient and entitled office workers. It's menial, dead-end work, and the pay doesn't even cover the interest on her $70,000 in student loans. She's trying hard to find a better job, but she's got a felony on her record that follows her around like a dark cloud.

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